Charles Giuliano
Bio:
Publisher & Editor. Charles was the director of exhibitions for the New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University where he taught art history and the humanities. He taugh tModern Art and the Avant-garde for Metropolitan College of Boston University. After many years as a contributor, columnist and editor for a range of print publications from Art New England, Art News, the Boston Phoenix, the Boston Herald Traveler and Patriot Ledger, to mention a few, he went on line with Maverick Arts which evolved into a website.
Recent Articles:
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When You Are Feeling Monkish Front Page
Things To Do
By: - Oct 08th, 2025Before the world awakens with its noise and expectations, there exists a profound stillness. To be an early riser is to claim this sacred time for yourself. In the pre-dawn quiet, you can experience a solitude that is not lonely, but deeply nourishing.
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Letter from Brooklyn Front Page
Ruckus Manhattan at the Brooklyn Museum
By: - Oct 08th, 2025Ruckus Manhattan was constructed at a time, 1975-78, when New York City was going to hell. The city was bankrupt, crime exploded, homeless people were sleeping in subway corridors, and there was a failure of leadership in City Hall.
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Fall Theater Season Unfolds Front Page
New York and Connecticut
By: - Oct 05th, 2025The theater calendars are filling up in both Connecticut and New York. Looking over the planned productions for the fall, a number of them jumped out as being particularly interesting.
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Kate Kennedy at Eclipse Mill Gallery Front Page
Social Satire with Wit and Originality
By: - Oct 05th, 2025We are at a very dangerous turning point in this country, and I feel any and every form of protest is not only appropriate but necessary if we are to regain any semblance of a democracy.
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Metamorphoses at Berkshire Theatre Group Front Page
Ovid Makes a Splash
By: - Oct 05th, 2025For the final production of the season Berkshire Theatre Group is hosting a pool party at the Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge. Based on Ovid, Isadora Wolfe is directing eleven actors in Mary Zimmerman's adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphosis. This lively and inventive production makes a splash
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Chorus Line Still Engaging Front Page
At Goodspeed
By: - Oct 02nd, 2025Attention to detail helps the audience immediately form attachments with the cast. Even with the first cuts, you are disappointed that a favorite or two did not make it. By the end of the show, you are upset when a favorite doesn’t make the final cut.
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Dishwashers Jesus and the Worm Front Page
Genghis
By: - Oct 01st, 2025I do recall making Sidecars, Whisky Sours, Brandy Alexanders, Manhattans, Tequila Sunrises, Blue Lagoons, classical Martinis, Gin Fizzes, and there was the artichoke liqueur Fernet Branca, vile stuff, but good for hangovers, and the poetically named feuille morte, made of pastis and grenadine, never liked it myself, and the kirs, champagne with crème de cassis was called kir royal, with white wine simply kir, and with red wine un carabinier.
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MASS MoCA Records Front Page
Museum Launches Label
By: - Oct 01st, 2025The first band to sign with MASS MoCA Records is The Kasambwe Brothers, a multi-generational band who has been making music together for almost 40 years and are grounded in the rich, musical heritage of Malawi, Africa.
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American Art Curator Theodore E. Stebbins Jr Front Page
Rethinking American Art: Collectors, Critics, and the Changing Canon
By: - Oct 01st, 2025Stebbins writes, “People are inclined to view past changes in taste as unique misjudgments that will not happen again…. How unthinking, how stupid, they think, not realizing that the pattern has been repeated again and again in the past and will be in the future. We now recognize that the process is a continual one. Each past canon was established for good reason; there are no mistakes, there is only history. Many of the favored artists of any period including our own will drop from favor, something that art dealers never tell their clients, or museum curators their boards.”
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Noises Off at the Legacy Theatre in Branford Front Page
Riotous Laughter.
By: - Sep 30th, 2025If you are lucky enough to have tickets for Noises Off at the Legacy Theatre in Branford, prepare yourself for riotous laughter.This farce by Michael Frayn combines a behind-the-scenes look at a play (Nothing On) as well as the complicated relationships among the cast.
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Joanna Klain at Gallery 13 ½ in Adams, Mass. Front Page
Sundaes on Sunday
By: - Sep 29th, 2025George LeMaitre and Patricia Fietta have renovated an enormous mill in Adams, Mass. It includes the generously spaced Gallery 13 ½ . Instead of Never on Sunday it is open Only on Sunday. Starting at 3 the gallery will serve sundaes. So its sundaes on Sunday. The artist is North Adams Eclipse Mill resident Joanna Klain. The gallerists are also showing examples of their own work.
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The Answer in a Steaming Bowl Front Page
Finding China in Its Food
By: - Sep 29th, 2025When my students ask what I ate, the answer is this: I ate warmth and energy on a bustling street corner. I ate harmony and balance from shared plates. I ate history in a piece of braised pork belly and mindfulness in a simple egg tart. And in my last meal, I ate a final, perfect memory. I ate China, and I returned full.
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Kevin Sprague Remembers Jonas Dovydenas Front Page
Mentor and Friend
By: - Sep 25th, 2025Jonas and Betsy have been a part of my life - and the life of my extended family - since they moved to the Berkshires when I was a kid. Jonas and my father Peter were great friends and engaged in some epic cross-country aerial adventures over the years. I worked for Jonas - and with him - on myriad projects over the years - we were in touch just a few days ago about making some updates to his website, which I’ve managed since the web began back in the early 2000s.
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Flying With Jonas Dovydenas Front Page
A Sky High Memory
By: - Sep 25th, 2025A couple of days ago my friend Jonas Dovydenas was killed in a collision while visiting his native Lithuania. He was a renowned photographer and philanthropist. For a number of years he was on the board of The Mount with two as chairman. In 2010 he flew in for lunch. We met at the North Adams airport. But he forgot the book, a work in progress, that he wanted to show me. It was back in Pittsfield. We flew back, seven minutes each way, for a truly memorable experience.
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Dishwasher Dialogues, Genius of Bread and Books Front Page
Under the Mountain
By: - Sep 24th, 2025Bread and books. Two more essentials. Shakespeare and Co. will always be dear to my heart. The first real bookstore to sell my book of poetry. And to host a reading I gave there. George Whitman, the founder, was a dedicated and friendly guy. I remember him as being serious about what he was doing. Creating a place for writers and artists to hang out and do what they do.
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Berkshire Photographer Jonas Dovydenas 1939-2025 Front Page
Fatal Accident in Lithuania
By: - Sep 24th, 2025Berkshire artists and patrons Jonas and Betsy Dovydenas visited his native Lithuania a couple of times each year. He was on hand to present an annual prize for Best Lithuanian Novel which he funded. On September 23 they were involved in an accident. He was killed and she was injured. We interacted with them recently during a performance at Shakespeare & Company. As a settlement with the cult Bible Speaks, for a time, they owned the campus of the former Lenox School for Boys which is now the campus of Shakespeare & Company. In 2014 I interviewed him about his photography exhibition at the Lenox Library.
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Boston Artist Arthur Polonsky Front Page
At Childs Gallery
By: - Sep 23rd, 2025Dating to just a few years after his return from Paris, The Diver is perhaps something of a transitional work for Arthur Polonsky, presenting a stark and puzzling juxtaposition of figural elements. At the most direct and literal level, the painting simply depicts the titular diver leaping off a dock, with a distant bridge standing before far-off factories.The work is on view at Childs Gallery, 168 Newbury Street, Boston.
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The Weekend: A Stockbridge Story by Ben Diskant Front Page
World Premiere at Barrington Stage
By: - Sep 22nd, 2025It’s shoulder season for the arts. With deft serendipity Alan Paul, artistic director of Barrington Stage has maxed on bucolic euphoria by going local with The Weekend: A Stockbridge Story by Ben Diskant. It is being given a world premiere directed by Paul.
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Gregory Gillespie Roman Interior (Still Life) Front Page
At Forum Gallery
By: - Sep 19th, 2025In her review of Forum Gallery’s 1968 exhibition, Rosalind Browne wrote for ArtNews, “Gregory Gillespie, a formidable young virtuoso who has lived in Rome on grants for the past four years, loads twentieth-century pornography, trompe l’oeil and discreet plaster montage into a highly enameled, explosive sixteenth-century Flemish package. The setting is Roman, the aura is Bosch, the concept is literary.”
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Jacob's Pillow Rebounds Front Page
Announcing Fall Programming
By: - Sep 19th, 2025Jacob’s Pillow announces the presentation of its first-ever fully-produced fall program on campus featuring a special weekend run of Caleb Teicher & Nic Gareiss, an evening-length duo concert performed by the acclaimed dancers and creative partners.
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George Nick 1927 - 2025 Front Page
Renowned Artist and Teacher
By: - Sep 18th, 2025He cited Edwin Dickinson as his mentor, admiring Dickinson’s painterly restraint, his sensitivity, and the way he taught teaching through seeing and doing. For his whole life, he invoked Dickinson as his most important influence. He used to say that he started painting simply because he was interested in the world, and it seemed to him that painting could be a way that he could learn about it.
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The Dishwasher Dialogues: Paris Highlife in the 1970s Front Page
La Carte Orange and Les Toilettes à La Turque
By: - Sep 17th, 2025The carte orange was a subway pass with your picture on it. You renewed it once a month, and it allowed you to travel wherever and as often as you wanted on the metro and buses of Paris. The pass was second class, unless you splurged. In those days the metro had first class carriages too.
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Martin Puryear Exhibition Front Page
Co Sponsored by MFA and Cleveland Museum
By: - Sep 16th, 2025“With this exhibition we are pleased to feature an exceptional artist of our time and powerful works that speak to Martin Puryear's creativity and exceptional craftsmanship, and the lifelong learning that has fueled his practice,” said Pierre Terjanian, the MFA’s Ann and Graham Gund Director. “The sculptures included in this survey extend a compelling invitation to engage with themes of culture, identity, and history. We are grateful to our colleagues at the Cleveland Museum of Art for their partnership in making this project possible.”
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Navigating Art & Science Front Page
Gloucester's Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
By: - Sep 16th, 2025Incoming Ocean, a site-specific video installation by Georgie Friedman, splashes across the interior architecture of the Cultural Center. The waves, filmed at nearby Halibut Point State Park, break over walls and doors, advancing toward one’s feet while also washing across a school of 50 life-sized Ghost Cod, hand-carved by Jessica Straus.
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Sole Defined Zaz Front Page
Co Presented bv Williams and Jacob's Pillow
By: - Sep 15th, 2025ZAZ is an immersive sensory performance that shifts traditional viewing practices beyond just sight and sound. The performers embody the oral histories and recorded experiences of survivors of Hurricane Katrina. They perform in tap shoes, hard-soled shoes, gumboots, and barefoot, creating a rhythmic score that supports the narration woven into the performance.
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